The future's not so rosy for Lady Rose Summer in this second Edwardian Murder Mystery, after Snobbery with Violence. Longing for emancipation, the reluctant debutante has abandoned the comforts of her parents' house to become self-supporting, but found life as a working woman not quite as liberating as she had imagined. Fortunately for Rose, her drudgery comes to an end after her old acquaintance Freddy Pomfret is found shot to death—almost certainly because he was up to no good—and her aid and her upper-class connections are again required by amateur sleuth Captain Harry Cathcart.